Three people were arrested and a fourth was issued a summons after a Black Lives Matter mural on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue in front of Trump Tower was vandalized with blue paint Friday afternoon, police said.
The incident, which happened about 4:00 p.m., marks the second in a week that someone threw paint on the mural, which the cityTwo women and a man were arrested and charged with criminal mischief after surveillance video showed them smearing the blue paint, police said. Germanotta, 39, D'Anna Morgan, 25, and Luis Martinez, 44 were released with a desk appearance ticket, according to police.
Another person, who was identified only as a 64-year-old woman, was issued a summons for illegally posting fliers.Morgan and Germanotta said that their actions were in part motivated by anger at Mayor Bill de Blasio. Morgan, who is Black, said she has members of law enforcement in her family.
Why do they keep calling this a mural when it is graffiti on a public road it should be removed?
Thank you, keep up the good work!
If ( De Bl ass e hole) was a real mayor it would be covered with a big blue line.
Why do you call it a mural? It’s on a street not a wall
What has this world come to.People in the U.S. getting arrested for vandalizing vandalism.Not to mention RACIST VANDALISM. MAYOR BILL DE BLASIO ( not his real name look into his back round he's a communist who changed his name) Should be arrested for TREASON
I’m confused, is it ok to paint the streets or isn’t it
Why?
Just another deranged racist trumper.
Again how do you vandalize graffiti? Just get rid of the bullshit!
They played themselves
I can’t stand Trump, but painting this on 5th Ave is above and beyond what is justified in protest. Thanks Mayor Bill for spending money on this, that can be used better elsewhere. Do you really think this influences Trump or will it solidify his base?
How can they justify those arrests and not for other destruction and mayhem in the streets?
I just came to watch the angry White folks cry ...
Time to start arresting people for burning the American Flag.
They're the betrayal of their own kind. They're anti-everything.
Can you vandalize graffiti?
No bail land!!!!
Were the ones arrested that painted it in the first place. Nope.
Lol But don't arrest the looters rioters and ANTIFA FOR DESTROYING PUBLIC AND PRIVATE PROPERTY AND BUSINESSES. EVERY THING THAT IS WRONG IN THIS COUNTRY STARTS AND ENDS WITH THE DEMOCRATS. HAVE YOU NOT SEEN THE BORDED UP BUILDINGS AND GRAFFITI EVERYWHERE.
Keep defacing it just to puss off Deblasio it’s highly entertaining 😂
Take this shit off the street this mural doesn't represent anything. If it represents anything it will be destruction, division, chaos, and racist slogan that only black matter but in fact, all lives matter even animals.
I hope this happens every single day. Not the arrests just the paint.
I thought these people hate structures, statues and symbols being vandalised.
Graffiti!!! Lawlessness!! Send in the federal shock troops! Start kidnapping conservatives off the street! It’s the only way to restore order!
Whatever happened to expressing your artistic freedom?
Mayor DiBlasio (born Warren Wilhelm Jr) is parenting this mural, better than he did his own children.
So people can riot, destroy property, vandalized statues etc and not be arrested. But doing the same to Marxist graffiti is a punishable act? Man this world is totally a wack job!
They will probably have the book thrown at them. Rioting, vandalizing and assaulting cops is no big deal in New York City.
Better remove that mural all together to avoid further protests and conflicts, just like they are doing with statues and other symbols.
They should arrest the people driving over the words with their cars, dont they have any respect?!
They should of painted it Blue for the demo rat party.. Yellow is the color of coward..
They should be given the presidential medal of freedom not arrested
People who do shit like this are gross, and should be fucked up on sight!
Gonna be a good month for Benjamin Moore.
So..when do the people who put it there get arrested? Defaced public property? Duh!!
The trump supporters, if indeed they where, or just thrill seekers or are a representative of some kind of missing brain cells sect We have in this century. Karen and chuckles. Broad daylight cameras are everywhere
Lets paint that over, All lives matter
How bout the people that vandalized fifth avenue with the graffiti on the street to begin with?
This is TOTAL BULLSHIT.... How can you go to jail for this and be released for attacking and BREAKING A POLICEMAN’S BONE IN HIS FACE OR BURNING BUILDINGS, THIS COUNTRY IS FALLING APART, THESE YOUNG CRIMINALS HAVE NO IDEA WHAT A COMMUNIST COUNTRY WILL SO TO THEM, THEY WILL LOSE
Animals!
The area in and around Trump Tower should be designated a national landmark. Graffiti like the blm on the street should be a felony...
How about doing some news on how many people black lives matters has gone around in murdered instead of hiding it do some real news for a change stop giving journalists of old a bad name
You mean the defaced the graffiti on the ground because this was done by racism yes the BLM painted on the street is racist BLM is a racist terrorist organization
Fingers crossed its Ivanka, Don Jr. & Eric... 🤞🏻🤞🏻
blacks can tear down all the statues they want and riot with no consequences, but whites paint, its a hate crime? they plan on doing anything about all the black on black violence going on....STILL, just never reported, as per usual
Imagine what equality will make them do. 🤔 Them: 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
Why? They were peacefully protesting
There's no reason to go after this story, just remember after BLM ANTIFA CHINAVIRUS never vote democrat
Restore the street and remove this mural. As racist SpeakerPelosi says: 'People Will Do What They Do'
Are you fucking kidding me?
No bail...they'll be back....Heros
Should pick up the mayor
Oh my God blue paint !!!
Who are they? Faces? names?
Lol 😂
Sorry it’s not a mural ! My brother is a artist of 40 years and has won tons of 1st place for his MURALS! This is graffiti!! It will continue being destroyed as long as it’s there.
I hope they keep it up.👍
Misdemeanors aren't hard to handle.
It will touch people in positions of power as well as the most vulnerable in our society. , So we'll meet this challenge together.. Let me be very clear.. Number three.. I'm not gonna stop anymore, all right? . We will afford no l imit to his side in this election
Haw can you vandalize vandalism.
See the woman wearing the pride flag? She was definitely trying to cause some tension between the Black and Gay community. To bad she ruined the ruse with her Trump hat and All lives matter shirt
People all over the US are vandalizing stores, private and public property, destroying monuments but somehow, that's ok. Some guys paint over what someone else painted on the floor, and they get arrested?! Can someone explain this please?
People really have no lives! 🤦🏾♂️ y’all really be out here embarrassing yourselves! Worried about all the wrong stuff! They need to be exercising! Imagine being more concerned with a BLM mural than your own health!
Next time use a lot more paint, and make it black
😂😂
MattMurph24 How racist and ignorant must you be, if you can’t stand BLACK_LIVES_MATTER written on a street!
How does one vandalize vandalism?
Some ppl can deface and others are arrested for it. What a society!
Again?
Writing political agendas on a public street is not a 'mural,' it is graffiti and it is the vandalism.
27 cops for securing this paint while homicides rises with 21%, shootings 46% in the first months of 2020. More cops are set to this than the murder on a dad while the daughter was next to him. realDonaldTrump What is wrong with the inhabitants of the US 'something in the water'
It's just visual symbolism nothing more nothing less.
Ppl getting butthurt over dumbsh*t. Remove it and you won’t have this problem.
I’m going to do it myself tomorrow. Spit a big giant green Lougey
They are afraid that the world will not be chaotic. Using an abstract rhetoric that is difficult to quantify as a pretext for the populist movement is a sign of a country's decline.
How awful that people get arrested for protesting.
Arrested for what?
Blue paint and graffiti and vandalism matters. Being able to afford a bail bondsman matters. And yes if the cops were trying to kill me,,,it would matter.(to me).
So funny how these idiots ONLY target the BLM in front of Racist Trump bldg. Why don't you keep that same energy and vandalized the BLM logo in Harlem or Brooklyn, plz I really just want to see how that turns out for ya. Losers!!
Paint the streets red , white and blue !🙏
They have no use of History!! Only the AGENDA Matters! We The People!! I don't believe in giving power and responeablity to MARXIST!! The Marxist Agenda!! Ignorance Of History!! Trained Marxist!!
Let me guess, was it Donald Trump Jr and Eric Trump that did it...
Nypd chief was assaulted by a black teen. If these black teens want to keep acting like they’re being oppressed and targeted, how about stop assaulting cops.
It should be painted over. It’s movement is lead by a Marxist.
deserved
Black Lives Matter is an evil organization. I hope they don't stop.
They’re so obsessed with Black People & Black People having the same rights as them...so much time & energy wasted on nothing! NEWSFLASH: Black people don’t give AF about “BLM” paint on the street & companies announcing their support for BLM. They simply what equality & justice
BLM is a fundraising arm of the Democratic Party and should pay for advertising like all other political platforms .This message is illegal graffiti on a public street. Paint the streets red , white and blue !!
How dare they vandalize vandalism!!! Shameful.
And what does the Mayor and Governor of N.Y call this
Bad idea..Please remove it..Theres gonna be nothing but back and forth fighting over it
BWAAA HAAAAA HAAAA HAAA
They should leave “BLM” alone & just write “F*CK” to the left of it.
And what are going to be the 'Supposed ' charges against these people? Wait I forgot they will be 'Made Charges' because after all is BLM, I hope the the authorities will also arrest and charge all who have been vandalizing all other Monuments too..
I hope this gets vandalized daily. Signed - Black Man
joke's on them, because it'll be repainted as often as necessary as long as there is still paint in the world.
No bail so they were out in minutes. I hope they keep doing it.
Why cant they paint the streets?
Those damn smurfs!
10 years minimum, right Donald?
Completely erase it ! It doesn't look good at all
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